Automobile-signal



W. CROSSLEY.

AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19, 1920.

1,367,304. Patented Feb. 1,1921.

WILLIAM CROSSLEY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

AUTOMOBILE-"SIGNAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1. 1.921

Application filed July 19, 1920. Serial naasmes.

f 0 all echo-1a it may concern Be it known that I, \VILLIAM Cnossnnr, acitizen of the United States, residing at West Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in AutomobileSignals; and I do hereby declare the following,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and thecharacters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisapplication, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view looking forward showing parts of a car including amud-guard w1th my improved signal mounted, thereon.

Fig. 2, a plan view of my improved s1gnal partly broken away, showingthe lamp projecting from the housing and indicated in position therein,by broken lines.

Fig. 3, a sectional view on the line 33, Fig. 2 looking rearward.

Fig. 4:, a sectional view on the line 47- 1 Fig. 2.

This invention relates to an improvement in automobile signals. Indriving a car a common practice is to extend the hand from one side ofthe car to indicate that the car is about to stop or turn a corner. Theobject of this invention is to provide a device, adapted to be operatedby the driver, and which will, when turned out at one side indicate thestopping or turning of the car, and the invention consists in theconstruction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described,and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I employ a housing, 10, adapted to besecured to the under side of one of the forward mudguards, 11. if, as isfrequently the case, the mud-guards have a flange 12, the housing willbe provided with an upward projecting lip, 13, adapted to be secured tothe'flange of the mud-guards. This housing is longi tudinally bowedcorresponding to the curvature of the mud-guards and may be securedthereto in any desired manner. Mounted in the housing is a disk orratchet wheel, 14, and arranged in a horizontal position and mountedupon a projecting end, 15, is a similar ratchet-wheel or disk, 16, thedisks 14 and 16 being connected by chains 17 and 18, so that when thedisk 16, is turned it will correspondingly turn the disk, 14.

Mounted in ring-like bearings19 and 20, secured to the disk 14 is atubular arm or sleeve 21, carrying atits outer end a lamp frame, 22, andto the end of the arm is mounted a socket 23, for anincandescentelectric lamp bulb, 24., the wires 25 and 26, therefor leading toterminals 27 and 28, adapted to contact with strips 29 and 30, connectedwith binding-posts, 31 and 32, to wh ch point, wires may be connected.

in its closed position the lamp frame, 22, stands horizontally withinthe housing and the side of the housing is closed by a plate 33, securedto one side of the lamp frame. On the sleeve are two teeth 3 1 and 35adapted to engage with a roller 36, mounted in the housing and in rearof the roller is a pin 37, for the purpose, as will hereinafter appear.The disk 16,'may be turned in any described manner for instance, asshown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the disk, 16, may be connected by cordsor wires 38 and 39 with the ends of a walking beam lever, 40, arrangedin the bottom of the car at a convenient point of operation by thedriver. When the lamp frame is in the closed position, the opening inthe side of the frame 1 is closed by a slide, 41, operated by a pin,

42, extending into an engagement with chain 18. When in the closedposition electric connection to the lamp is broken. When it is desiredto give a signal that the car is about to stop or to turn a corner thedriver operates the lever, 40, so as to turn the disk, 16, which turnsthe disk, l-il, moving the lamp out of the housing, and as it approachesa position at right angle thereto,

the tooth, 34, engages the roller, 36, which turns the sleeve 21, andthus the lamp frame is moved into a nearly vertical position and themovement of the lamp frame to a vertical position is completed by theengagement of the tooth 35, with the pin 37. As the lamp frame is movedoutward the slide, 41, is moved rearward. As the sleeve reaches itsfinal turned position the terminals 27 and 28 contact with the strips 29and 30 so as to close the circuit to the lamp, thus providing a signalwhich may be visible at night.

A reverse movement of the lever, 4.0, returns the lamp into the housing.

I, thus provide, by simple means and readily operated by the driver, asignal which may be readily observed, either from the front or rear ofthe car, and avoids the necessity of the driver extending one arm toindicate his course.

I claim: i

1'. An automobile signal comprising a housing, open at one side, a diskpivotally mounted in said housing, means for turning said disk, a sleeveloosely mounted on said disk and adapted to revolve thereon, a lampframe connected with said sleeve and a means for turning said sleevewhereby When the sleeve is turned by the disk the sleeve will be rotatedto turn the lamp frame.

2. A signal comprising a housing, a disk pivotally mounted in saidhousing, means for turning said disk, a sleeve loosely mounted on saiddisk and adapted to revolve thereon a lamp frame connected with saidsleeve, said sleeve provided with two fingers, a roller in the path ofsaid fingers, whereby, when the sleeve is turned the lamp frame will bepartially rotated.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM CROSSLEY.

Witnesses VERA B. DICKERMAN, Gnonen H. Tnonms.

